1952 — Vincent Massey, the head of the National Gallery of Canada and former politician and diplomat, has been appointed Canada’s next Governor General. The choice, made by Louis St. Laurent‘s government, means that the country has its first native born head of state representative.
Massey is a former High Commissioner to London where one of his staff was Lester Pearson. He was also Pearson’s residence don at the University of Toronto in 1913, and awarded Pearson a Massey Foundation Fellowship in 1921 to attend Oxford University in England.
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